Re: Perl modules in Ubuntu that do not adhere to Debian's naming policy
Thanks for all your work on this Ansgar!
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@43-1.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> writes:
>
>>> Ubuntu includes several Perl module packages that do not adhere Debian's
>>> naming policy[1]. Once Debian includes these modules in a differently
>>> named package, there are problems if one tries to install both packages
>>> at the same time. See [2] or [3] for examples.
>>
>> Do you have a proposal for how to identify these packages? Ubuntu packages
>> are also expected to comply with this part of Debian policy, so this doesn't
>> change anything unless we can automatically identify the ones that don't.
>
> I did search for package containing files in /usr/(lib|share)/perl5.
> Most problematic packages were already renamed, I only filed a bug
> report for gtk2-ex-formfactory-perl [1] (already fixed).
> I also identified a package that was renamed in Debian, but where the
> old package has not been removed from Ubuntu yet [2].
>
> There are also the packages
>
> ebox -- common library used by eBox platform modules
> libebox -- eBox - Common Library
>
> I cannot see much of a difference from the description. Also libebox
> should probably be called libebox-perl as well.
>
> Regards,
> Ansgar
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526281
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526295
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